Photo of the week: Israeli ambassador Mark Sofer visit

L-R: Mark Zeimann, Prof Sam El-OSta, Prof Mark Cooper, Ambassador Mark Sofer, Prof Paul Zimmet and Vivienne Zimmet

On the 22/03/2018 the Department of Diabetes welcomed Israeli ambassador, Mark Sofer for a tour of the state-of-the-art diabetes laboratories.

See more photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Yj6EjhXK9hP8mz3s2

What's on at CCS 4-6 April 2018

Jasper Cornish, seen here at a 2017
Day of Immunology event, is giving
his PhD mid-candidature presentation
on Wednesday 4 April 2018.

Central Clinical School (CCS) has regular seminar series and postgraduate presentations. Event notices are posted on the CCS Events calendar.

CCS staff and students can see details of both public and local events (including professional development courses, trade fairs and Graduate Research Student calendars) and deadlines, at the CCS intranet's Announcements page.

See CCS seminar index:  https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/headlines/events-calendar

What's on at CCS 4-6 April 2018

Wed	04/04/2018	►	11:30	PhD Mid-Candidature Milestone: Jasper Cornish
		►	13:00	MSurgery Confirmation Milestone: Katherine Martin
Thur	05/04/2018	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Jennifer Boer
		►	12:00	Alfred Grand Rounds
		►	12:30	MPhil Progress Milestone: Mahtab Parvaresh

Forthcoming events 9-13 April 2018

Mon	09/04/2018	►	12:00	Neuroscience seminar series
		►	12:30	PhD Confirmation Milestone: Daniel Merlo
Tue	10/04/2018	►	11:00	PhD Confirmation Milestone: Abbey Willcox
Wed	11/04/2018	►	11:30	Seminar-Bill Heath (PDI)
Thur	12/04/2018	►	11:30	Cutting Edge Journal Club: Jessica Borger

Recent CCS publications: 24-29 March 2018

Dr Dan Andrews (2nd from right) and his group work on natural
killer cells. Dan is co-author on a paper reviewing unconventional
T cell targets for cancer immunotherapy.

Recent publications for Central Clinical School affiliated authors in the following departments. Note, browse down this entry for complete publications list. Linked headings for each section are to the departments' home pages.

Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine (AIRMed)

Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Diabetes

Gastroenterology

Infectious Diseases

Immunology

Monash Alfred Psychiatry research centre (MAPrc)

Medicine

Neuroscience

Surgery 

Alfred trauma program hits home with teenagers; study

Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.)

program is a trauma prevention and health promotion initiative

by Anne Crawford

Research evaluating an injury awareness program run at The Alfred Hospital that uses vivid clinical reality has demonstrated the program’s effectiveness in changing perceptions of risk-taking in adolescents.

Research needed for autoimmune hepatitis patients' salvage therapy

Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic inflammatory liver disease
not readily treatable for 20% of patients

by Anne Crawford

Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic inflammatory liver disease. The condition is treatable for the large majority of patients. The 20 per cent or so of patients who don’t respond well to standard medicines are treated with “salvage therapies”, but until now these have been inadequately scrutinised for their efficiency and safety, a new paper says.

Monash University researchers in the Department of Gastroenterology at The Alfred Hospital have conducted a rare, comprehensive review of salvage therapies resulting in findings that could benefit clinicians and their patients with the disease globally.

Central Clinical School hospitals achieve top results in FRACP examination

Recent successful FRACP examinees celebrate their pass

Congratulations to our Basic Physician trainees from Central Clinical School hospitals, who achieved an exceptional pass rate in the recent (delayed) FRACP examination! 

Alfred Health trainees achieved a 100% (31/31) pass rate and Peninsula Health trainees achieved an 86% (18/21) pass rate.   We would like to congratulate all the trainees for such an outstanding achievement. We would also like to congratulate all our education staff at Peninsula and Alfred Health who co-ordinate the teaching programs from undergraduate through to postgraduate medical education.

This is a testament to the outstanding education leadership and support for trainees at both sites.

2018 MIME Seed Fund meeting invitation

Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) is preparing to launch its annual seed fund. The 2018 MIME Seed Fund will be launched through a series of affinity meetings with our partner hospitals. Researchers are strongly encouraged to attend these meetings if they are interested in collaborating with clinicians as part of the 2018 MIME Seed Fund.

Click on the links below to RSVP to attend the meetings and check details of location etc.

• Thursday, 31 May MIME Alfred Health Affinity Meeting 3.00 – 5.00 pm
• Tuesday, 5 June MIME Monash Health Affinity Meeting 3.00 – 5.00 pm

Media mentions: Diabetes and PBS listings

New diabetes medicines added to PBS list. Image: Channel 9

25 Mar 2018: Channel 9 story, "New diabetes medicines hit PBS". Excerpt:

Monash University's Professor Mark Cooper said new medicines were needed to help people who were struggling to maintain healthy blood sugar levels.